ZOOM FOR TEACHERS
The Easy and Practical Guide to Effective Online Teaching. Prepare, Manage, and Run your Virtual Classroom Smoothly with Zoom
Emily Rose Johnson
Introduction
Due to the challenges posed by the global epidemic disease, remote meetings have become more necessary. This explains the recent increase in usage of the Zoom application by teachers around the world working from home to reduce the spread of the virus.
Zoom allows individuals to meet and work together in a face-to-face manner effectively when meeting in person is not possible. That makes the meeting much more remote, which is essential to help users feel connected and stay connected. The number of Zoom users this year has risen rapidly.
Zoom allows teachers to create lessons and organize the different training activities by enabling the various applications, such as sharing multimedia materials, chats, discussion forums and social networking and virtual classrooms.
As a teacher, whether you or your learners have a condition that prevents you from meeting face to face, Zoom will help to keep your class running. Concurrent online class meetings, where everybody is expected to attend a Zoom group, are one way to build interaction while students are far. Still, Zoom may also be used to help special education and learning situations. Zoom may be used on any device and even workstation phones, allowing students to connect with the team meeting in many ways. You can find tips on planning for your Zoom meetings in this book, gathering students with the conversation, screen editing, polling, non-verbal reviews and breakdown rooms, and supplying your community with open online learning sessions, as well as resources for different teaching scenarios.
The system offers some basic features: it is accessible through the Internet; it bases the learning paths on the multimedia material (text, audio and video); it continuously monitors activities and includes tests to evaluate results; it allows interaction between students and teachers.
When it comes to online instruction, there are critical pieces that must be maintained across all courses. Student surveys about online courses typically show a correlation between poor teaching and learning and the online instructors ability to communicate. Instructors have frequently noticed when they provide consistent due dates, expectations, rubrics, and strategies throughout a course, the students learn more and leave them more positive feedback.
If the success of online teaching in colleges and universities can teach us anything, once the online learning starts and the students feel comfortable, it would be the growth of distance learning, and would eventually become an indispensable part of any good educational program. Online learning is here to stay. Those who want to stay at the top of this profession will learn, grow, and adapt their instruction. It is up to current teachers to learn from the lessons of non-traditional instructions and transform online learning into the schools of the future.
Without further ado lets get started.
Chapter 1: Getting Started, Basics of Zoom, How Does Zoom Work, Setting Up a Virtual Classroom
What is Zoom?
Zoom is a video conferencing tool that is cloud-based and allows you to host one-on-one virtual meetings or virtual team meetings effortlessly. With powerful video, audio, and collaboration features, this distant communication tool links inaccessible team members with each other.
Some vital features of zoom include:
- Hosting video webinars
- HD video chat and conferencing
- Instant messaging
- Screen sharing and collaborative whiteboards
- Virtual backgrounds for video calls
- Audio conferencing using Voice over Internet Protocol (VOLP)
Basics of Zoom
Individuals love utilizing Zoom since its configuration works for them 99.99% of the time, with no requirement for IT support. The effortlessness of the structure causes clients to feel like they are in charge of their gatherings.
Profile Page
At the top left corner of the dashboard is a profile link where you have access to your profile details, and you can manage features like changing of profile pictures, getting your meeting ID, your sign-in email, user type, meeting capacity, language, and the rest.
Meeting Page
The meeting page is the next, which is right below the profile page, at the top left-hand corner of your dashboard.
From this page, you can do a whole lot of things like:
- Scheduling a New Meeting
- Access Previous Meetings
- Access a Personal Meeting Room.
A personal meeting room is reserved explicitly for you; this is where you have your meeting ID and invite link among others.
- Meeting Template
Meeting Template is a place where you can customize your meeting by choosing a session, and can also edit and save it as a template for future use.
Get Training
Get Training is a dedicated page for training.
Webinar Page
What is a Zoom video webinar? It merely enables you to host a broad audience with audio, video and screen sharing for nothing less than a hundred participants and ten thousand attendees.
Recording Page
The Recording Page is a page dedicated to your recordings, either locally or by cloud.
Settings Page
You will see a lot to work while on this page. You can set or reset your meeting, recording and telephone settings.
How Does Zoom Work
Zoom's principle administration is video correspondences. The interface is straightforward enough for anybody to see how to utilize it in only a couple of moments. The application configuration includes a video upfront style approach, with a solitary control bar on the base.
The Zoom meeting control bar highlights straightforward symbols that speak to the receiver control, camera use, members, talk, screen sharing, recording, and response. Zoom keeps up an oversimplified and natural interface, and a considerable lot of these symbols drill down to get to more profound degrees of control. In the engine, Zoom offers numerous video conferencing highlights that its rivals don't. Hence, Zoom has gotten the most love for power clients who host loads of online gatherings. Clients frequently pick Zoom for its significant rundown of highlights; however, the genuine excellence of Zoom is its dependability.